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106TH CONGRESS [REPT. 106-818
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
ALASKA NATIVE AND AMERICAN INDIAN DIRECT
REIMBURSEMENT ACT OF 1999
SEPTEMBER 6, 2000.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 406]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill (S.
406) to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to make
permanent the demonstration program that allows for direct billing
of medicare, medicaid, and other third party payors, and to expand
the eligibility under such program to other tribes and tribal organi-
zations, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 406 is to amend the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act to make permanent the demonstration program that
allows for direct billing of medicare, medicaid, and other third
party payors, and to expand the eligibility under such programs to
other tribes and tribal organizations.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The purpose of S. 406 is to make permanent a direct billing dem-
onstration program authorized by the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act Amendments of 1988, Public Law 100-713. The bill
makes the program permanent for the four demonstration pro-
grams and expands the eligibility to other tribes and tribal organi-
zations which operate Indian Health Service (IHS) hospitals and
clinics. It provides that all funds received through the program be
used specifically to maintain accreditation or, if that has been se-
cured, to address the lack of health resources available to that
tribe. The bill recognizes the success of the demonstration program,
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